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Some promises made in Tory manifesto

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whitewave Fri 08-May-15 15:19:46

Here are some headline promises made in the Tory manifesto. There is nothing about how any of it is going to be funded that will come later in the emergency budget.

£5000 worth of free childcare
Income tax free for minimum wage
personal allowance to 12500
40% tax threshold raise to £50K
No increase in VAT, income tax and NI
Inheritance tax raise to £1m
7 day access to GP's
£8bn for NHS -
30 hrs of childcare for 3+4 year olds
Repeal Hunting Act jing!!!
Increase pension by at least 2.5%
200K starter homes
4 boat trident

durhamjen Sat 09-May-15 22:17:26

How do you know it will not be retrospective, Ana?
Do you know something Iain Duncan Smith knows but will not tell the rest of us? Are you his wife?

soontobe Sat 09-May-15 22:23:22

dj - unless you vote for a one issue party[which you may have done], it is highly unlikely that anyone likes all the policies of a party they vote for.

Ana Sat 09-May-15 22:24:11

Damn! I was hoping to keep that quiet...blush

durhamjen Sat 09-May-15 23:19:41

Sorry, Ana. I won't tell anyone else.

Re one of your earlier posts, it's £12 billion, not million.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/08/tories-12bn-welfare-cuts-mythical-scroungers-conservatives

By the way, you'll be pleased to know that Tony Blair has got in on the act again,and has said that Labour needs to adopt his ideas again if they wish to get in to government.

durhamjen Sat 09-May-15 23:21:26

There are no single issue parties, soon. It's impossible. There are parties which stress a particular issue more than others, but no single issue parties, although I am sure you will find one if you look hard enough.

Ana Sat 09-May-15 23:25:32

Yes, indeed, I am very pleased to hear that TB's put his oar in - that should keep Labour out for the foreseeable future! grin

rubylady Sun 10-May-15 01:49:09

There are benefits I knew nothing about. I didn't know that on low income you can get a payment of £500 to buy baby items which you do not have to pay back, only for the first child. But how many people will claim this?

vampirequeen Sun 10-May-15 15:19:24

Your income has to be very very low. DD2 struggles but didn't qualify.

nightowl Sun 10-May-15 15:29:03

So you don't think the Tories are string enough to do that all by themselves Ana wink

whitewave Sun 10-May-15 15:52:48

Suggestion today that GO will back peddle on the 12bn cuts now that he doesn't have a coalition partner to blame. Must wait for the budget to find out what he intends to do.

GrannyTwice Sun 10-May-15 16:02:00

Is there going to be an emergency budget?

whitewave Sun 10-May-15 16:22:43

Apparently. He has to say where the money is coming from for all the manifesto promises, and how he intends to cut the deficit within the next 2 years when we will "Oh how glorious enter the sunny uplands" of surplus whereupon he will give tax breaks to all - don't hold your breath if you are poor though this doesn't mean that he will let you off the hook. You are undeserving and don't work hard enough.